Print, Copy, Scan

Fondren Library has printers, copiers and scanners available for all users. Some are primarily for use by Rice University students, faculty and staff (require a Rice NetID), and some are for all users and require purchase of a copy card.

Black and White copies will come out of the printer adjacent to the Print Release Machine.

Color copies will come out of the Color Photocopier/Printer located on the 1st floor in the bank of photocopiers.

After sending the print, be sure to take your copy card back from the machine.

Digital Media Commons Printers

Payment for printing may be made by patron's Esther account or Interdepartmental Transfer. Printing services are intended for Rice students, faculty, staff.

DMC Policy for a Large Volume Print Job:

For a large volume print job (i.e. over 500 pages), go to the Document Center in the Jones Graduate School of Business, located on the fourth floor of McNair Hall. The Document Center provides copying and printing services for the entire campus. Its hours are 8:00am – 6:00pm. A request for services can be accessed at http://Doccenter.rice.edu. The Document Center can be contacted at ext. 6571 or jccmail@rice.edu.

For a medium volume print job between 100-500 pages, please print 100 pages first, then allow the printer cool down for 10 minutes, meanwhile, check the printouts to make sure the colors do not fade, if colors fade, notify DMC staff on duty to switch the ink cartridges before proceed to the next 100 pages. For duplex printing, please print 50 pages at a time. This practice prevents the printer from overheating and a certain ink cartridges from running too low to cause the color fading issue, so that waste of ink and paper on unsatisfying printouts won’t happen.

Standard Document printing

Rice affiliates:

Price

Letter (8.5”X11”)

B & W (Simplex/Duplex)

$.10

Color Simplex

$.25

Color Duplex

$.50

Tabloid(11”X17”)

B & W (Simplex/Duplex)

$.20

Color Simplex

$.50

Color Duplex

$1.00

Interdepartmental transfers:

Price

Letter (8.5”X11”)

B & W (Simplex/Duplex)

$.06

Color Simplex

$.15

Color Duplex

$.30

Tabloid(11”X17”)

B & W (Simplex/Duplex)

$.12

Color Simplex

$.30

Color Duplex

$.59

Large format printing

Rice affiliates:

Ink Cost/square foot

Price

1 (line drawing, text)

$1.00

2 (mix of text and image)

$1.80

3 (image)

$2.60

Paper cost/linear foot

36” Semi-glossy

$1.50

60” Semi-glossy

$2.30

36” Canvas

$2.30

60” Canvas

$4.00

Cost = [content type * (width * height)] + [paper type * height]

Locate the unit price in the price table by paper type and class level.

For interdepartmental transfers:

Ink Cost/square foot

1 (line drawing, text)

$.59

2 (mix of text and image)

$1.07

3 (image)

$1.54

Paper cost/linear foot

36” Semi-glossy

$0.89

60” Semi-glossy

$1.37

36” Canvas

$1.37

60” Canvas

$2.37

Cost = [content type * (width * height)] + [paper type * height]

Locate the unit price in the price table by paper type and class level.

3D printing

The BIC charges for printing but is not connected to the Fondren print server. The BIC sells print cards in $2.00 and $5.00 denominations. The charge per print is $0.05. The print cards have a username and password which are used to print.